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Black Hill Route Info 10-Mar-2010 At 3:50:21 PM gtempest

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I'm currently working on the Black Hill section of the Rockclimbs Around Melbourne guide and have a couple of routes I can't identify. The first is on a vertical good-looking orange wall about 10m or so right of Pull the Ripcord on Mushroom Rock. It looks bloody difficult, has 3 rings plus a pair of lower-off rings on top. The other route is on an isolated tor about 20m west of Mushroom Rock. It takes a featured arete on what looks like fairly good-quality granite (at least for Black Hill). It has a ring then 2 fixed hangers and then another ring. Four bolts in all. The route looks fairly technical.

If anyone can identify either of these routes (and any first ascent details) I would be grateful. By the way, has anyone repeated Pumping Ugly Muscle or Bon Voyage of late? Apparently the final moves on Bon Voyage are still possible even though one of the (supposedly key) holds came off a few years back.

Finally, on the steep face around right of Milawa etc. I can identify Havoc (24) on the left side of the wall (it has a three newer rings and an old fixed hanger) and The Cult Master (24) (which utilises the top two rings on Havoc). There are also four old fixed hangers going straight up the hey diddly diddle starting as for The Cult Master and Acid Rain. Anyone know about this 'line' and has anyone repeated any of the other routes on the wall and maybe wants to comment on them? Cheers.